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Above medium height, his keen grey eyes playing carelessly about the room, Wild gave the impression of tremendous vitality, held in check only by a correspondingly powerful calmness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER CRIME REPORTER, PAL OF GANGSTERS, IN HAA OFFICE | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

...standards, it was hailed in Argentina as one of the best Latin films to date. Petróleo's villain is a suave Yankee imperialist (Sebastian Chiola) who turns up in Argentina, tries to do the natives out of their oil wells. Thanks to the keen eyes of an Argentine oilman's daughter (blonde, beautiful Luisita Vehil), Latin virtue triumphs over Yankee greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latin Uproar | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Sophomore members of the basketball elite comprise practically all of last year's Freshman team. Such keen-eyed sharpshooters as Charley Royer, Jack Clarke, Al Reade, Art Scully, and lanky Larry Hall round out a well balanced squad...

Author: By A. EDWARD Rowes, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/4/1941 | See Source »

Last week other young U. S. citizens joined the Army by the thousand. Of those who were drafted, some were keen to go, some were reluctant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecution of the Rich | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...tentacles of a determined octopus over 23,000 miles of strategic routes (South American mileage of Pan Am & affiliates: 26,000 miles). Owned or controlled by huge Deutsche Lufthansa, they operate at a considerable financial loss. But their pilots fly for the Fatherland, not for pfennigs. Lufthansa and her keen-eyed brood are 1) the arteries of German propaganda taken from Wilhelmstrasse to Rio by the Italian airline Lati, 2) the training schools where Nazi pilots learn South American topography, gain practice in long-distance flying, 3) the outposts from which hemisphere defenses come in for Nazi scrutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Sedta Cuts the Rates | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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